The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-10-05

reaching the War Department In such
way us to attract the eye OF the speak.
er BY the time courier can get in t
a telegraph station and wire the Gov
ernor of the State. who notifies the
Adjutant-G General to write dictated
letter with his trenchent typewriter,
apprlsing the commander of the de
partment, who is at Coney Island oil
Carlsbad, with no typewriter nearer
than fifteen miles, who wires the Gov
ernor to make active inquiries about
the matter, and by the time the Cover
nor has sent committee. who 90 tc
within fifty miles of the scene Of
hostil ties, and return ut the end OF 81,
weeks to report that they do not know
whether there has been an outbreak OF
not, and then when ranchman is really
killed and reputable eye-wtnesses who
were personally acquainted with de.
ceased. and will swear that they have
no interest in the result of the outbreak.
come in and make n written and gram
NAUTICAL request for troops, and the Wai
Department gets thoroughly rested the
Indians have gone home. washed the
gore off their hands and resumed their
quiet, humdrum life. Like trying to
treat man in Liverpool for softening
of the brain by applying the mnd cure
per cable from New York, the remedy
is too remote from the disease.
Indians are quick and impulsve in
the matter of homicide. They are slow
to grapple with anything of ahumorou,
nature. and all the humorous lecturers
who have been on the Ute lecture
course have lost money, but in the
holocaust line or general arson, torture
and massacre business they act with
astonishing rapidly. AS race, they
regard this entire land as their own,
just us the mosquitoes claim New Jer.
sey, simply because they were there
first.
The Indians see that the property is
improving and so they feel more and
more wealthy and arrogant. They
claim that they will never give up their
rights unless they get hard up, and
even then it will not count. They al
ways have mental reservation in
these matters which they prefer to the
reservation provided by the Govern
ment.
Indians naturally dislike to see these
lands in the possession of wealthy men
whose sons earn Il precarious livelihood
by playing lawn tennis.
Colorow once made short speech
TO his troops, which was taken down
at the same time by gentleman who
was present and who was collecting
material for a new third reader for our
common schools.
Colorow claimed that it was incor-
rect, and the notes were found after
wards on the strcnographer's body. 1t
is about as ticklish bus ness to report
an Indian speech as it is to poultice a
boil on the person of the Ameer of
Cabul.
I'm closing Colorow said: warriors,
our sun is set. We are most of us out
on third base and we have no influence
with the umpire.
"Once | could stand on the high
ground and one shout would fill the
forest with warriors. Now the wailing
wind catches up my cry and bears it
away like the echo of our former great
ness. and hear low voice murmur,
Rats.
Whisky and refinement have filled
our land with sorrow. The white man
crossed the dark waters in his large
canoe and filled the forest with churches
and railroad accidents.
1.-The Indian loves not to make
money and own aldermen for which he
has no use. He loves his wives and his
children and intrusts them with the re-
sponsibility Of doing all his work. The
white man comes to us with honeyed
words and says if we will divide our
lands with him he will give us a
present. and when we give him Il
county and a half he gives Us a red
collar button and blue book, in which
he has written in his strange and silent
language, When this you see, re-
member me- Our warriors are weak
and have the hearts of women. They
care not for the warpath or the chase.
Most of them want o'go on the stage
Once nv warriors went with me at